Yep. I learned years ago that these four-stars only tell us (and Congress) two things: 1) things are great and we need more money to keep them that way, or 2) things are terrible and we need more money to improve them.
I sat in a fascinating briefing about two years ago given by an actual nuclear scientist who was one of the team members who built the first EMP weapon.
High points:
1) they’re very hard to build
2) it takes a hell of a lot of atmospheric detonation data to even begin work on such a weapon
3) the Chinese and probably the Russians don’t have the necessary data and would need to conduct many more live tests
4) our power grid isn’t nearly as fragile as most think it is with local power distribution being the most vulnerable but fairly easily replaced if needed
5) the range of the effect diminishes rapidly and requires a pretty sizable warhead to get anything going that could effect even part of a state
6) the odds of anything harming us nationwide is almost zero
I went into it with “One Second After” on my mind. I came out of it not worried about EMP attacks; regular nuclear strikes are still by far the preferred method of mass annihilation.
Huh? Your paragraph makes no sense and no two ideas are linked in any way.
As someone who was homeschooled illegally in TX starting in 1985 to a father of five homeschooled children, I can assure you that homeschooling not only “has a chance” but is flourishing.
Despite the low casualties and falsehoods peddled, it is remarkable that Americans have allowed the war to continue for 19 years with no end in sight.
Not remarkable at all. The vast majority of the population have zero stake in the war's continuation. Some Soldiers died from an IED? "Oh, that's sad." Another general officer is placed in charge of the war to finally win it but utterly fails just like all of his predecessors? "Well, I'm sure he tried. The next guy will have better success."
We had a seven-minute video with Floyd that didn’t come close to telling us the whole story. Now this video with a massive gap in it is supposed to get us outraged? No thanks.